Oh gods can we get any more off-topic *wink* [was Re: [Python-ideas] Inconsistencies]

[Dale Marvin]

On 9/14/16 12:20 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Wednesday 14 September 2016 16:54, Rustom Mody wrote:
>
>> everything we know will be negated in 5-50-500 years
>
> I'm pretty sure that in 5, 50, 500 or even 5000 years, the sun will still rise
> in the east, water will be wet, fire will burn, dogs will have mammary glands
> and frogs[1] won't, and the square root of 100 will still be 10.
>
> Isaac Asimov once wrote:
>
>     When people thought the earth was flat, they were wrong. When people
>     thought the earth was spherical, they were wrong. But if you think that
>     thinking the earth is spherical is just as wrong as thinking the earth
>     is flat, then your view is wronger than both of them put together.

> http://chem.tufts.edu/AnswersInScience/RelativityofWrong.htm
>
> [1] Assuming that there are any frogs left by then.
>

Funny, Asimov's professors must have taught him the same false history 
that I was taught at college. There's much evidence that medieval 
scholars did not believe the earth was flat.

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myth_of_the_flat_Earth>

Dale